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Thursday 3 September 2026
KEPCO seeks US$18 billion from Samsung, SK Hynix to fund Korea's power grid
Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) has proposed that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix prepay as much as KRW25 trillion (approx. US$18 billion) in electricity bills as South Korea looks...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Huawei, Xiaomi to launch new foldable smartphones ahead of Apple
Samsung Electronics launched its new Galaxy Z series foldable smartphones, including its first wide-folding model, kicking off this year's foldable smartphone battle. With attention...
Thursday 3 September 2026
ChangXin Memory's 'Hefei Project' exposed in Samsung DRAM theft case
South Korean prosecutors allege that Chinese memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) set up an internal "Hefei Project" in 2016 to obtain Samsung Electronics' core DRAM technology...
Thursday 3 September 2026
SK Hynix wafer purchases jump 104% on AI demand
SK Hynix boosted its silicon wafer purchases in the second quarter of 2026 by more than doubling spending from the previous quarter as it moved early to secure raw materials amid rising...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Global smartphone outlook cut again as foldables shine
Global smartphone shipments are facing renewed downside pressure in 2026 as memory prices rise, handset makers pass on higher costs, and brands trim low-end models to protect margins...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Samsung to add 1,612 new equipment units at Vietnam chip plant
Samsung Electronics is set to install 1,612 brand-new critical semiconductor back-end processing tools manufactured in South Korea at its factory under construction in Vietnam's Thai...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
DRAM giants target 3D stacking to break memory wall and power bottlenecks
At a shared stage at Semicon Taiwan 2026, executives from Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron agreed that traditional 2.5D high-bandwidth memory (HBM) using interposers is approaching...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix inventories surge as valuation reserves fall
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix ended the first half of 2026 holding sharply more inventory than six months earlier, an unusual development in a memory market where demand continues...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Nvidia pushes into HBM base dies as NVHBM battle heats up
The competition in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is moving beyond DRAM stack height, bandwidth, and packaging to the base die at the very bottom of the package. As Nvidia pushes its...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung eyes early 2027 LPDDR5X-PIM production, touts 3.8x performance gain
Samsung Electronics is targeting mass production of its LPDDR5X processing-in-memory (PIM) solution in late 2026 or early 2027, moving the technology closer to commercialization as...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
XCENA teams up with Samsung on rack-scale CXL memory; demos on Intel Xeon 6
South Korean chip startup XCENA is pushing CXL beyond memory expansion and toward a new layer of server computing, unveiling measured results for its MX1 computational memory device...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung locks 70% of memory output as HBM spot prices soar
Samsung Electronics has reportedly locked up as much as 70% of its memory production capacity under long-term supply agreements (LTAs), as relentless AI infrastructure demand for high...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung weighs HBM4 bonuses as memory, foundry teams align
Samsung Electronics is using a cross-division "One Team" model to develop its sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory, HBM4, but the approach is creating a new challenge for the newly...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung is said to develop 8-layer HBM4E for Nvidia's NVHBM push
Samsung Electronics is reportedly developing an 8-layer version of seventh-generation high-bandwidth memory for Nvidia, matching the chipmaker's requirements for its customized NVHBM...
Monday 31 August 2026
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 demand surges, straining UMC 22nm DDI supply
Samsung Electronics' first passport-style foldable, the Galaxy Z Fold8, is reportedly facing tight display driver IC (DDI) supply as demand exceeds expectations. Samsung has continued...